Welcome to my weekly post, where I sum-up what I’ve been up to in bookland the past week.
Greetings, blog-friends! Here’s what I’ve been up to this week. Better late than never, right?
Now: The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily ~ Rachel Cohn & David Levithan // The Enchanted ~ Rene Denfeld
The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily is a quick, light read but I haven’t been swept away by it like I was with the first book. I’m also still going on my ‘lunch time’ (what’s that I hear you cry!?) read, The Enchanted. I managed about 2 pages today. Sigh.
Then: Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky ~ Holly Martin // The Book of Kringle ~ Derek Valez Partridge // Saint Death ~ Marcus Sedgwick
It’s very rare I finish two whole books in a week, never mind three! But I lost myself in the first festive reads of the season and then moved on to the new Sedgwick. I liked all of these books a lot. I reviewed The Book of Kringle on Monday, and my review of Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky will be up tomorrow. Saint Death was the only (slight) disappointment, probably because I always have such high hopes for his books. I’ll get my review up by Monday.
Next: ???
I think it has to be The Witches of New York by Ami McKay which I should have read and reviewed abut a month ago. Bad blogger. Sorry, World.
Waiting on Wednesday
(Linking up with Breaking the Spine)
Once again I’ve chosen this book based on the cover. It immediately got my attention. Sounds great, too!
Aspiring inventor and magician’s apprentice Felix Carmer III would rather be tinkering with his latest experiments than sawing girls in half on stage, but with Antoine the Amazifier’s show a tomato’s throw away from going under, Carmer is determined to win the cash prize in the biggest magic competition in Skemantis.
When fate throws Carmer across the path of fiery, flightless, one-winged faerie princess Grit (do not call her Grettifrida), they strike a deal. If Carmer will help Grit investigate a string of faerie disappearances, she’ll use her very real magic to give his mechanical illusions a much-needed boost against the competition.
But Carmer and Grit soon discover they’re not the only duo trying to pair magic with machine – and the combination can be deadly.
Expected publication: April 25th 2017 by Algonquin Young Readers
New on the Shelves
(Linking up with Stacking the Shelves)
I’m really not sure about this one but I was so intrigued I had to pre-order it. It arrived earlier this week….
She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn’t even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning.
Now, she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They’ve killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon.
When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it’s her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous.
Resolving to meet the threat head on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life, but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of.
In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialized skill set. And she shows once again why she’s one of the world’s bestselling authors.
So that’s my week in books, now why don’t you tell me about yours!?
Leave your answers or the link to your post in the comments and I’ll take a look🙂
